The recent "back-door" in an open source program has some questioning just how secure open source is, or really can be. "A hole discovered in a Red Hat Linux product has experts debating how secure open-source software is, given . . .
The recent "back-door" in an open source program has some questioning just how secure open source is, or really can be. "A hole discovered in a Red Hat Linux product has experts debating how secure open-source software is, given that the code is wide open for the world to see." ... "The fact that they've been finding holes in (Unix-based) Sendmail for 20 years indicates that open-source is not the best for security," Rouland said.